Influence of Arthropod and Fruit Abundance on the Dietary Composition of Highland Colombian Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha lugens)

2019 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-257
Author(s):  
Manuel L. Fonseca ◽  
Diana M. Cruz ◽  
Diana C. Acosta Rojas ◽  
Johanna Páez Crespo ◽  
Pablo R. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Composition ◽  
Fruit Abundance ◽  
Lagothrix Lagotricha ◽  
Woolly Monkeys

scholarly journals Humboldt's woolly monkeys decimated by hunting in Amazonia

Oryx ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Peres
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Terra Firme ◽  
Lagothrix Lagotricha ◽  
Woolly Monkeys

Humboldt's woolly monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha have been systematically hunted, mostly for food, to the point of becoming locally extinct wherever humans share their habitat. Remaining populations in the extensive lowland Amazonian range of this species are restricted to remote, unflooded terra firme forests. These populations are, however, quickly wiped out once access is opened by new roads. Terra firme forests, even in entirely undisturbed sites, are seasonally far less productive and can only sustain relatively low population densities. Woolly monkeys are currently more susceptible to hunting than perhaps any other vertebrate in the New World tropics and, as such, should be regarded as highly endangered.

APPLICATION OF ASSAYS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF TOXOPLASMOSIS IN A COLONY OF WOOLLY MONKEYS (LAGOTHRIX LAGOTRICHA)

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltan S. Gyimesi ◽  
Michael R. Lappin ◽  
J. P. Dubey
Keyword(s):  
Lagothrix Lagotricha ◽  
Woolly Monkeys
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